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If it was me, I'd have put the exact dia rod in the bore, plenty of grease and oil in both ends and slowly pushed the slug out using a hydraulic ram. It wouldn't take a lot of pressure, certainly...

Yep, quite common in service.

As a matter of interest, the illiustration is a good example of a parts list. It is a list of PARTS and not a list of AVAILABLE parts. For example the catch...

Yes, they are definately the ones. Well spotted too. But, alas, out of stock!

It looks to me like your holster is for the earlier type of 1" flare pistol WITHOUT the bell mouth. The bell mouth was a base workshop modification to prevent debris from being blasted sideways when...

I have to come back to this site every week to get my weekly 'fix' of superb engineering and drool over the magnificent L4 LMG's.

I have to say that you are a braver man than me with the milling...

The grips for those signal pistols wrapped around the metal butt part, in two halves. I wish you'd have mentioned it a couple of years ago. They were still in use and we had plenty of grips. But...

It looks like an incomplete star but I'm minded to wonder why any nation would bother to mark such an insignificant part with a national emblem.

On the other hand, could it indicate that the...

Never seen that with any Bren but caps-out was a problem until they solved it, as Brian says, by staking the cap in place during ejection and knocking the cxxp out of it, to distort it when firing.
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Used in and part of the CES for the Saracen Total waste of time because as soon as it filled up it jammed the gun due to spent cases getting into the ejection port of the gun. And in any case, how...

Harold Turpin only had £5 to spent to make the two prototype guns, No.T/1 and No.T/2. There was no money - or time - left for a new design of magazine. The Lanchester magazine was already in...

Well, there it is in black and white....... or at least white! The plastic stuff was not of my era but I suppose that it did prevent the white shoe cleaning stuff from getting all over your pressed...

In response to a PM from the author of this thread, I've nothing to add to Rogers response except that I agree that the AA mark is the steel batch. Important during trials to ascertain movement,...

Like the others, I'm not sure that there was a specific frog for the No9 bayonet. You just used what you were issued with. Usually after your 6 weeks basic training. I don't recall anyone asking...

I hope that he won't mine me saying but Brian at BDL has the UK spec parkerising process off to a fine art and as I understand it, also has the UK spec sunkorite spirit based heat resisting paint. ...

What you think of the Mk2 cocking handle stop modification is JUST what I thin k of your workmanship Cal50! It's a true pleasure to see your kind of workmanship. And on a trusty L4 gun, it makes my...

I would say that it's a total disaster.......... The scope recoils with the rifle and as it does so, attempts to rotate rearwards. Pulling the life out of the large screw holding the front pad...

The addition of the cocking handle stop block on the Mk2 guns was a standard Base workshop and FTR work-over. There were two methods to retain it. The dovetail with braze or two horizontal pins...

There were plenty of what were known as 'LOST OR INDISTINCT SERIAL NUMBERS' and the worst offenders were No4's, 5's No8's and Stens ......., all made at the dreaded Fazakerley. If 80 rifles went...

Nope....., don't know about a No67 scope. I have heard of the similar ex No32 Mk3 No64 conversion though. There was a shortage of No32 Mk3 telescopes for conversion and as spare 'stand-alone'...

If you had a solid tube Mk2 - or better still, a Mk5 Sten and 10 good magazines the worked in YOUR gun, that was all you needed. It was as safe as the other SMG's too. In that fired when you...

That cut-away GPMG just made my day. I enlarged it and just below it was another little stunner........ This time a topless stunner...... More of her please SNAFU!

They came with medium butts but in service the sniper could select whatever size butt he wanted. He could have the cheek-rest shaped to suit and fit whatever sling suited him best and whatever sling...

Off track a bit but I have a funny feeling in my bones that eventually, the good old L2 series, GPMG FN-MAG will out live the other machine guns. We called it 'The General' I used to invite one or...

Nice to see a mention of the No5 rifle foresight cramp from Brian. Anyone got a No5 grenade launcher. A totally useless piece of work if ever I saw one. Anyone ever heard of anything so daft as...

Yep, Mirage....... Got that Muffer as soon as I looked at the tail. Mind you, I'm one of those to whom all planes look the same! I thought you'd smile about watching the US Phantoms flying low and...